There are also registration of more than 4,600 injured and 214 missing persons
The death toll of the March 28 earthquake in Myanmar increased to 3,471, with over 4,600 injured and 214 missing, today the military junta in power in the country.
The Armed Forces released this new balance through Myanmar’s Global New Light newspaper, at a time when rescue teams, including some foreigners, continue to remove rubble and look for missing.
The previous balance, released on Saturday, pointed to 3,354 dead, 4,850 injured and 220 missing, having been rescued by 653 people.
The 7.7 magnitude earthquake has reached a large area of the country, causing significant damage to six regions and states, including the capital Nayphitaw, leaving many areas without energy and communications.
The shake also aggravated the humanitarian crisis triggered by the country’s civil war, which internally moved more than three million people, according to the United Nations.
Military Government leader General Min Aung Hlaing said that the earthquake was the second strongest in the country’s history after the magnitude 8 earthquake of Mandalay in May 1912.
The regime also explained that more than 150 tons of humanitarian aid – from countries such as China, the United States, Singapore, India and Thailand – entered the country since the earthquake.
An estimate mentions collapse or partial damage in at least 21,783 houses, 805 office buildings, 1,690 pagodas, 1,041 schools, 921 monasteries and convents, 312 religious buildings, 48 hospitals and 18 hectares of plantations.
Min Aung Hlaing, confirmed – in another article published today by the official newspaper – the plan to build temporary schools to ensure that children return to class as soon as possible.
The Armed Forces today accused ethnic guerrillas and the democratic opposition to commit “terrorist acts,” referring to alleged attacks on state and military facilities, in the midst of territorial dispute that worsened since the coup d’état of February 2021.
The military and various armed resistance groups declared a temporary ceasefire on Wednesday, after the earthquake, to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid.
On Wednesday, the United Nations Office for Human Rights accused the Military Board of not respecting the ceasefire, having made at least 16 attacks since the truce and a total of 61 since the earthquake.
On March 28, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale, with epicenter in Myanmar (former Burma) was felt in several Southeast Asia countries, including Thailand, where a total of 22 people died in the capital.
